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Diabetes Support groups: Details and Announcements thread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    The National Diabetes Health Awareness Exhibition and AGM returns to the Burlington Hotel, Dublin on Sunday 11th November, from 12 – 5pm.

    The aim is to provide the latest information and support to people with diabetes, their families and friends.


    Free Health checks will be available, including:
    • Diabetes Screening
    • Eye Screening (booking in advance is required for this screening)
    • Cholesterol
    • Blood Pressure
    • HbA1c
    • BMI


    Guest Speakers:
    • Professor Richard Firth, Consultant Endocrinologist on "Alternative Medicine and Dietary Supplements"
    • Kate O'Connor, Dietitan on "Understanding Carbohydrates and how they work"
    • Dr. John McDermott, Consultant Endocrinologist on "Current medications used to control diabetes and their roles"
    Plus, Childrens Magic Show.



    The main exhibition hall will contain exhibits from organisations such as;
    • Abbott Diabetes Care,
    • Eli Lilly,
    • Bayer Healthcare,
    • Lifescan/Animas,
    • Medtronic,
    • Sanofi,
    • Novo Nordisk,
    • Splenda,
    • Merck Sharp and Dohme,
    • Novartis,
    • The Irish Diabetes Nurse Specialists Assoc.
    • Diabetes Ireland
    • Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute
    • Fight for Sight
    • Diabetes Ireland Research Alliance
    • Pfizer
    • Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists of Ireland


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


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  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group.

    The next meeting of the Type 1 Diabetes Support Group will take place on Tuesday, 13th November in the Temple Gate Hotel at 8pm. This meeting is open to people who use insulin to treat their diabetes and to parents of children with diabetes. The topic being discussed is "The effect of exercise on blood sugar levels". Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the only treatment option is injecting insulin. It is usually diagnosed in children and young adults.

    This group is open to adults living with type 1 diabetes and to parents of children with diabetes. The Type 1 Diabetes Support group offers support and information on living well with type 1 diabetes. The Support Group can be contacted on the following telephone number 087 641 5747 or by email at clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    any meetings for type 2


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group.
    The Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group will have their next meeting on Tuesday, the 11th December in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare at 8pm.

    This meeting is open to adults living with type 1 diabetes and to parents of children with diabetes. The Type 1 Diabetes Support group offers support and information on living well with type 1 diabetes. The Support Group can be contacted on the following telephone number 087 641 5747 or by email at clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


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  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    The Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group will meet on Tuesday, the 12th February in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare at 8pm. The topic of the meeting will be "motivation to stay on top of diabetes management".

    This meeting is open to adults living with type 1 diabetes and to parents of children with diabetes. The Type 1 Diabetes Support group offers support and information on living well with type 1 diabetes. The Support Group can be contacted on the following telephone number 087 641 5747 or by email at clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Galway Diabetes Public Information Evening

    Where: Galway Bay Hotel
    When: Tuesday 5th February 2013
    Time: 7-9:30pm

    Speakers:
    Consultant Endocrinologist Francis Finucane speaking on ‘New Developments in Type 2 Diabetes’

    Physical Activity Health Promotion Officer Paul Gillen ‘Physical Activity and Diabetes- the importance of being active’

    Diabetes Nurse Specialist Áine Cunningham on ‘Diabetes and Your Entitlements’

    Also in Galway:
    ‘Sweet Spot’ Diabetes Information Sessions in Feelys Pharmacy, Dublin Rd, Tuam, Co Galway on the last Thursday of each month for 1.5 hours and is free of charge. Contact: tel 093 24876 for more information


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    If you are a parent of a child with T1 Diabetes or know someone who is I am organising a T1 Diabetes Parents Get-Together on Wednesday March 20th @ 8pm at the Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick.

    This will be very informal in the Conservatory of the hotel and they have kindly offered complementary tea/coffee.

    If interested please PM me and I will forward my telephone number as I will need numbers for the hotel.

    This facebook page for Parents of Children & Teens with T1 Diabetes in Ireland is also a good way to find other parents; https://www.facebook.com/groups/217346238337444/


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Clare Type 1 Support Group for Adults & Parents of Children with type 1 diabetes.

    The next meeting of the Type 1 Diabetes Support Group will take place on Tuesday, 9th April in the Temple Gate Hotel at 8pm. This meeting is open to people who use insulin to treat their diabetes and to parents of children with diabetes. The topic being discussed is "Exercise and Diabetes". The Type 1 Diabetes Support group offers support and information on living well with type 1 diabetes. The Support Group can be contacted on the following telephone number 087 641 5747 or by email at clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Diabetes Ireland’s National Spring Meeting comes to Limerick.

    Diabetes Ireland, the national charity for people with diabetes, brings its annual National Spring meeting to the Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick at 2pm on Sunday the 14th April.

    The meeting entitled “Diabetes Self–Care enhances Quality of Life” is free to attend by the general public.

    A wide range of diabetes topics will be presented at the meeting starting with Limerick Regional Hospital Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Dr Clodagh O’Gorman, who will be speaking on the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes management from a patient perspective.

    Dr Corneilius Cronin, Consultant Physician/Nephrology in St John’s & Mid-West Regional Hospital, Limerick will speak about the steps people with diabetes can take to optimise self-care and avoid developing diabetes complications.

    Ennis based health care professional, Ms Carmel Devine, Podiatry Manager, HSE, will present “Why I need to check my feet each day: What do I look for?”

    Also presenting are; Ms Aisling Collins, Dietitian in St John’s Hospital, Limerick on the importance of health eating and Dr Myles Balfe, who was funded by Diabetes Ireland and the Health Research Board to undertake a research project looking at the factors that influence self-care and quality of life in young Irish adults with Type 1 diabetes.

    Following the presentations all the speakers will form an “ask the experts” panel which will be open to the audience.

    Diabetes Ireland hopes that people with diabetes and their families in the Mid-West region will be able to support this special event. The National Spring Meeting will begin at 2pm with light refreshments served at 4pm. All are welcome.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    The next meeting of the Type 1 Diabetes Support Group for Adults will take place on Tuesday, 11th June in the Temple Gate Hotel at 8pm. This meeting is open to people who use insulin to treat their diabetes, their families and to parents of children with diabetes. The topic being discussed is "Dealing with Medical Emergencies". The Type 1 Diabetes Support group offers support and information on living well with type 1 diabetes. The Support Group can be contacted on the following telephone number 087 641 5747 or by email at clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    The Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, the 8th October at 8pm in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis. This meeting is an informal groups of adults with type 1 diabetes and parents of children with diabetes. The main topic for the evening will be "Driving with Type 1" and in particular the new RSA rules applying to people who use insulin.

    If you would like more information about the Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group our telephone number is 087 641 5747 or email: clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    The Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, the 10th December at 8pm in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis. This meeting is an informal groups of adults with type 1 diabetes and parents of children with diabetes.

    If you would like more information about the Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group our telephone number is 087 641 5747 or email: clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Dublin Type 1 Diabetes Support group.
    The next meeting of this group is on Wednesday the 5th February at 6.30pm in the Novo Nordisk offices, 2 Hume Street, Dublin 2. Contact the group through https://www.facebook.com/groups/169847736412651/


    Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group Meeting.

    The Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, the 11th February at 8pm in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis. This meeting is an informal groups of adults with type 1 diabetes and parents of children with diabetes.

    If you would like more information about the Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group our telephone number is 087 641 5747 or email: clarebranchdfi@gmail.com

    Kildare Diabetes Group
    Next meeting is booked for Wednesday 19th February @ 7.30pm Maudlins House Hotel


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭cocker5


    graflynn wrote: »
    Dublin Type 1 Diabetes Support group.
    The next meeting of this group is on Wednesday the 5th February at 6.30pm in the Novo Nordisk offices, 2 Hume Street, Dublin 2. Contact the group through https://www.facebook.com/groups/169847736412651/


    Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group Meeting.

    The Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, the 11th February at 8pm in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis. This meeting is an informal groups of adults with type 1 diabetes and parents of children with diabetes.

    If you would like more information about the Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group our telephone number is 087 641 5747 or email: clarebranchdfi@gmail.com

    Kildare Diabetes Group
    Next meeting is booked for Wednesday 19th February @ 7.30pm Maudlins House Hotel


    Excellent! really useful!! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Hello Everyone,

    I've attached a file that contains a more comprehensive list of all the diabetes support groups in the country. Organised alphabetically by location.

    I hope it works and I hope it's useful to people :)

    Nationwide Support group details.pdf


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Croi in association with Galway University Hospital have put together a workshop evening on Thursday 13th February from 7pm - 9:30pm in the Croi Heart & Stroke Centre, Moyola Lane, Newcastle Galway. Places are limited to 100 and will be on a first come, first served basis. Call Croi on 091 544310 or email: alma@croi.ie to reserve a place.

    I've attached the programme of speakers and topics;


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Wednesday, February 19th, 2014.

    The next “Time to Talk” session will take place on Wednesday Afternoon, 19th Feb 2014 (midterm break).

    We are “Cooking with the Culinary Arts Students” at C.I.T. where we hope each teen will learn to prepare and cook their own meal with the help of a student. Teens will need to register for this event as places are limited (12).

    Contact the Southern Regional Office, Charlotte or Pauline on 021 4274229


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Here's an updated version of the Support groups for people with diabetes and their families.

    I've added the contact details for two groups in galway.


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Some of you might have read in the Irish Independent about the removal of the Diabetes Nurse Specialist from the Children’s Type 1 diabetes service in Letterkenny General Hospital last week.

    Diabetes Ireland have put a petition together to have this nurse reinstated and to have the vacant Endocrinologist post filled. I’m reaching out to the greater diabetes community to please support parents of the Donegal Branch of Diabetes Ireland and sign their petition to get a dedicated paediatric diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist at Letterkenny Hospital to support the 143 children attending.

    This is a vital service to these families and they can not afford to lose it! Click on the link below to sign the petition. Please like and share and help us get as many signatures as possible to present to the HSE!

    Please sign and support this petition:
    http://www.change.org/petitions/hse-provide-a-dedicated-paediatric-diabetes-clinical-nurse-specialist-based-in-letterkenny-general-hospital-to-support-the-143-children-attending-the-hospital-4?utm_medium=email&utm_source=notification&utm_campaign=new_petition_recruit#share


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  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Type 1 Diabetes & Alcoholf"
    Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support.


    The next meeting of the Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support group takes place on Tuesday 8th April at 8pm in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis. The topic for this meeting will be on how alcohol effects type 1 diabetes. This meeting is an informal groups of adults with type 1 diabetes and parents of children with diabetes. The Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group can be contacted on telephone number 087 641 5747 or email: clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    graflynn wrote: »
    Here's an updated version of the Support groups for people with diabetes and their families.

    I've added the contact details for two groups in galway.

    I've added a new Parents group starting in Laois who are having their first meeting on May 28th more info here.

    Diabetes Support Groups in Ireland

    I've also noticed that Diabetes Ireland are running their Type 2 courses, CODE all over the place; http://www.diabetes.ie/category/events/


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Hello Everyone,

    The next meeting of the Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support group takes place on Tuesday 10th June at 8pm in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis. We have a guest speaker, Pauline Dunne, Western Regional Development officer with Diabetes Ireland & Dietitian. She will present "Exercising & Managing Type 1 Diabetes". The meeting is free to attend.


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Please support the Parents of children with type 1 diabetes who attend Crumlin to have services fully reinstated.

    Parents frustrated at the deterioration of services for children with diabetes in major Dublin National Centre


    Increased demand for services, dwindling staff numbers and the HSE embargo has seen the suspension of insulin pump therapy- the best method of managing Type 1 diabetes – in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital (OLCH), Dublin.

    The paediatric diabetes team has seen their staff numbers plummet from 3 experienced Paediatric Diabetes Nurses to 1 (funded by the Parents Support Group). The hospitals response is the short time allocation of a newly qualified nurse. Initiation of Pump therapy at the Hospital has been suspended which jeopardizes the implementation of the Health Service Executive Type 1 diabetes Model of Care for Under 5’s nationally as children from as far away as Donegal come to OLCH for this service.

    The Mulready family planned their year so that their son Darragh could get his pump on July 22nd and be able to self-manage his diabetes for returning to school in September. His mother Trish says “Darragh was devastated that his pump is sitting in a press gathering dust instead of been fitted to him making his life that bit more normal and helping keep his blood glucose levels a lot more stable”.

    Dr Stephen O’Riordan, Clinical Lead in Paediatric Diabetes stated “the lack of appropriate Diabetes Nurse Specialists in Crumlin is a health crisis. Crumlin has been the mainstay of pump therapy nationally for decades. If these centres are not adequately staffed, then any other National initiatives will not succeed. I know that appropriate staffing for the Crumlin Diabetes Team is our number 1 priority at a National level for the 2015 HSE National Service Plan. We have been pushing this since 2011 based on reinvestment of savings from the National Pump Tender”.

    Donegal parents recently fought hard to get their own paediatric diabetes nurse for Letterkenny Hospital so that their children could have access to insulin pump therapy. The local children and families who were to attend OLCH for training on the use of the insulin pump have now had that pulled from them. The McFadden family whose son Joey aged 5 is waiting to be started on a pump in OLCH said “just as one door opens, the other door is slammed in our face. We have waited so long and having to travel to Dublin to be just told this is not going to happen, is outrageous and thoughtless”.

    Dr Anna Clarke, Diabetes Ireland stated that “Not having access to nurses and pump therapy is causing great distress to the 600 families attending OLCH who are living 24 hours a day with Type 1 diabetes. Nurses are crucial to helping families cope with diabetes and in reality are not expensive. As a result of not having diabetes nurses in OLCH, you have increased workload on higher paid staff such as consultants and more costs on treating issues that would be recognised earlier / prevented by nurses.”


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Another paediatric diabetes service threatened. This time Limerick/Galway, who share the Insulin pump service which only got started in March of this year.

    http://www.diabetes.ie/2014/07/parents-fear-loss-of-quality-service-for-children-attending-university-hospital-limerick/

    I would say "this is getting ridiculous" but it already was:mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    There are 9 Type 1 meetings all over the country in the next 2 months. Please see the attached file for the where and the when. some are for adults, some for families, some for everybody:)

    Kildare on the 24th Sept
    Cork, 25th Sept
    Limerick/Clare 5th Oct
    8th Oct Cork
    11th Oct Cork
    14th Oct Portlaoise
    14th Oct Clare
    15th Drogheda
    5th Nov Limerick


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    graflynn wrote: »
    There are 9 Type 1 meetings all over the country in the next 2 months. Please see the attached file for the where and the when. some are for adults, some for families, some for everybody:)

    Kildare on the 24th Sept
    Cork, 25th Sept
    Limerick/Clare 5th Oct
    8th Oct Cork
    11th Oct Cork
    14th Oct Portlaoise
    14th Oct Clare
    15th Drogheda
    5th Nov Limerick

    :eek:Forgot the Dublin Type 1 Adult meeting on 1st October in the Novo Nordisk's Offices, 2nd Floor, 2 Hume St, D2 at 6:30pm Contact Contact information: t1diabetic.dublin@gmail.com and https://www.facebook.com/groups/169847736412651/


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    graflynn wrote: »
    There are 9 Type 1 meetings all over the country in the next 2 months. Please see the attached file for the where and the when. some are for adults, some for families, some for everybody:)

    Kildare on the 24th Sept
    Cork, 25th Sept
    Limerick/Clare 5th Oct
    8th Oct Cork
    11th Oct Cork
    14th Oct Portlaoise
    14th Oct Clare
    15th Drogheda
    5th Nov Limerick

    Due to unforeseen circumstances the Cork Type 1 Adults support group meeting on the 25th September has been cancelled.
    If you would like information on future Type 1 meetings contact tel: 021 4274229 or email: sro@diabetes.ie


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    5th October Limerick/Clare Family Day.

    The Limerick/Clare/Tipp parents group have organised a walk, for Sunday October 5th at 10.30am incorporating Lough Avalla, Mullaghmore. This parents group has been running for a couple of years now and have a number of adults with type 1 attending also.

    This walk is ideal for our group and suitable for all ages, it is a 2.5 hour walking circuit and smaller children can be driven closer.

    If you are interested please email Olivia at olivia.sweeney@coachingireland.com to give her an idea of numbers and for more details. All family members welcome, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins.


    Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group with Neil Pakey, CEO of Shannon Airport. (Adults, parents & Young people welcome)

    The Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support Group have invited Neil Pakey, CEO of Shannon Airport and a person with type 1 diabetes for 30+ years, to come to our meeting on Tuesday, October 14th at 8pm in the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis, to share his diabetes story and how he attributes his diabetes to his success in his career.

    Originally from Scotland, Mr Pakey was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when he was 21 years old. He has 30 years experience in the aviation industry and was appointed CEO of Shannon in 2013. He has been involved with JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) in the UK in the past.

    The meeting is free to attend and is open to anyone who wants to learn more about Type 1 Diabetes. More information about the Clare Type 1 Diabetes Support group meetings can be found by emailing Grainne at clarebranchdfi@gmail.com


    Yours sincerely,
    Grainne Flynn
    Clare Diabetes Support.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Cork Type 1 Adult Support group meeting on the 30th October.

    See link for more details; http://www.diabetes.ie/2014/07/cork-type-1-adult-support-meeting/


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